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Warrant: The Current Debate is the first in a trilogy of books written by the philosopher Alvin Plantinga on epistemology. Plantinga introduces, analyzes, and criticizes 20th-century developments in analytic epistemology, particularly the works of Roderick Chisholm, Laurence BonJour, William Alston, Alvin Goldman, and others. [1]
- Alvin Plantinga
- 1993
Jul 22, 1993 · In this book and in its sequels, Warrant and Proper Function and Warranted Christian Belief, I examine the nature of epistemic warrant, that quantity, enough of which distinguishes knowledge from mere true belief.
- Alvin Plantinga
Jun 22, 2022 · Warrant : the current debate. by. Plantinga, Alvin. Publication date. 1993. Topics. Knowledge, Theory of, Belief and doubt. Publisher. New York : Oxford University Press.
Plantinga examines the nature of epistemic warrant; whatever it is that when added to true belief yields knowledge. This present volume surveys current contributions to the debate and paves the...
In this chapter, I introduce the notion of warrant (that quantity, enough of which is what distinguishes knowledge from mere true belief), and then turn to examine the connections between (epistemic) deontology, justification, and internalism.
In this chapter, I take stock of the arguments and conclusions of the previous nine chapters, noting that the idea of proper function figures prominently in the difficulties from which the main current views of warrant suffer.
In Warrant: the Current Debate I noted first that 20th century British and American Epistemology has been dominated by internalist notions, the most important of which is justification.
